Congratulations to the wonderful group of Volcanistas who made UTV 2024 our best year ever. We open for applications on July 1 for UTV 2025.
Ilya Kaminsky was born in the Ukrainian city of Odessa. His most recent collection is Deaf Republic (2019), which was named a New York Times Notable Book for that year and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry in 2020.
Carolyn Forché’s five volumes of poetry include Gathering the Tribes, winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize, The Country Between Us, The Angel of History, Blue Hour and In the Lateness of the World.
Alejandra Xanic
Co-Founder, Quinto Elemento Lab, Mexico City. Recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting with David Barstow for their New York Times exposé of Walmart’s corrupt entry into Mexico.
Deobrah Blum
Director, Knight Science Writing Program, MIT
Guest presenter, UTV 2021
Acclaimed science journalist, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, and co-editor of A Field Guide for Science Writers.
Steve Fisher
Mexico-based investigative reporter with a focus on criminal justice and organized crime. A frequent contributor to the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and more.
Alice Driver
Independent journalist based between Mexico City and Arkansas. Author of More or Less Dead: Feminicide, Haunting, and the Ethics of Representation in Mexico (University of Arizona Press, 2015)
Dudley Althause
Independent reporter covering Mexico, Latin America and beyond for over three decades. Frequent contributor to he Wall Street Journal. Nominee for the 1992 Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting for his articles on the cholera epidemic in Peru and Mexico.
Marcela Turati
Co-Founder, Quinto Elemento Lab, Mexico City. Award-winning investigative journalist based in Mexico. Author of Cross Fire: Victims Trapped in the War on Drugs
Carrie Kahn
National Public Radio’s correspondent for Mexico, the Caribbean and Central America. Prize-winning freelance journalist, most recently recipient of the 2020 Cabot Prize from Columbia Journalism School, conversing with Angela Kocherga, news director and correspondent for public radio station KTEP, El Paso.
Deborah Blum
Director, Knight Science Writing Program, MIT Guest presenter, UTV 2021. Acclaimed science journalist, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, and co-editor of A Field Guide for Science Writers.
Karla Maria Gutierrez
Robert L. Breen Journalism Fellow, UTV 2022. Based in San Cristóbal, Chiapas, Karla María covers migration, human trafficking, gender issues and freedom of expression in print and online.
